Thousands of people gathered in West Hollywood Sunday morning for the L.A. Pride parade.
Organizers said they were expecting 400,000 spectators and participants.
The parade was scheduled to start at 11 a.m. and run west on Santa Monica Boulevard...

Monday's Pictures in the News begins in West Hollywood, where thousands line Santa Monica Boulevard for L.A. Pride Parade. The parade featured 130 entrants, including grocery stores, banks, politicians, television news stations and advocacy groups.

NBA center Jason Collins, who played for the Washington Wizards last season, has become the first male athlete still active in a major professional sport to come out as gay. Collins made his announcement to Sports Illustrated, which will feature Collins...

Last week, our family visited New York City on vacation. As we left our hotel Sunday to come back to Maryland, we got caught up in the crowds watching the city's Gay Pride Parade. It was quite an experience. The night before, the New York State Assembly had passed, and the governor had signed into law, a bill guaranteeing marriage equality, so the crowd was in especially high spirits. The parade, as might be expected, was quite entertaining, but what impressed us the most were the spectators. Lined up...

I wonder, as they sit in their separate cells, what songs the three jailed members of Pussy Riot sing to themselves to keep their spirits strong. My vote: “Resist Psychic Death” by the early 1990s punk feminist band Bikini Kill. The verse offers a four-word summation of the refusal to be mentally imprisoned: “Your world, not mine.” And the chorus provides a bullet-point mantra of determination and survival: “I’ll resist with every inch and every breath/ I’ll...

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama sparked a burst of enthusiasm from Florida's gay and lesbian voters and a backlash from conservative Christians in May when he proclaimed unequivocal support for same-sex marriage.
Reverberations from that decision now are running through the presidential campaign in the state, setting up a clear choice between Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney, a staunch proponent of traditional marriage.
This and related social issues have energized gay voter-...

Cars began lining up before 7 a.m. to get into the parking lots at M&T Bank Stadium for the shuttle bus ride to Fort McHenry and the Blue Angels air show.
Yellow school buses stretched from Camden Yards to beyond the football stadium to handle the crowds, which are expected to fill the fort to capacity by 11 a.m.
The historic site holds about 25,000, but The Star-Spangled Sailabration is expected to draw 1 million people to Baltimore's Inner Harbor area by Tuesday. Elsewhere, several thousand people are...